§ MR. BROOKE ROBINSON (Dudley)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider the propriety of extending to the wrought nail trade the Order he has made extending Section 116 of The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 to the small chain trade, seeing that the two industries are carried on in the same district in similar shops and conditions, and are kindred industries.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Ritchie.)I have already considered this question. Before issuing the Order with regard to 15 the chain trade I called for a Report on the question of extending it to the wrought iron nail trade. Very careful inquiry was made by the local inspector, I and on his Report, made after consulting | representative masters and workpeople, it appeared that there was no demand for the order in the wrought iron nail trade, and that no abuses now existed in that trade which an order could remedy.